The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-08-12

We are constantly finding confirma.
ton for the belief expressed last weet
that the thing for Kansas farmers to DE-
is to get an early variety of corn and
plant it early. On Monday Mr.. Rob.
ert Cook kindly invited us to a seat in
his carriage in company with Mr..
Shelter and Mr.. RambO, and dr. owe
VA down into the NeoshO bottoms
where he has a large field of corn. Hal
Of this field was planted with the
Leaning" an earlyOhio variety. This
was fully matured, had not been hurt
by the drouth and the yield was esti-
mated at from 50 to 20 bushels per acre
The other half of the field was planted
with the ordinary white and yellow
varieties of corn, and the most careless
observer could instantly see the differ
ence. There were numerous stalks
without an ear. those that had formed
were small and poorly filled, and the
yield would not exceed 20 or 25 bushels
per acre. We drove on through the
bottoms past magnificent fields of corn
stalks. belonging to Capt. Ewing, the
Durnbergers and others, and while all
of these fields will have q fair crop,
there are none that will compare with
Mr.. Cooks field Of Leaning" al
though thew are on richer ground and
were equally well tended. Most Of the
fields we passed were dry and beyond
the reach of rain. although there were
two or three patches that were yet
green and that rain would greatly
help. These latter fields were those
that had been protected by timber
from the hot winds.
THE REGISTER this week contains some eight
or ten announcements of candidates, and all
but two are from lola. Democrat.
The Democrat had better hire re-
publican to do its counting. j. p.
Duncan, candidate for Register, and
VIM. Cunningham. candidate for
both hold their residence in
r. D. Jones, candidate
for Clerk, lives in Elsmore township,
and d. d. Britton, candidate for Sher-
lift, halls from Usage township. 1t is
an old trick of the Democrat to injure
the town that supports it by attempt
ing to create a prejudice against it for
the sake of gaining a political advan.
tage, but we had hardly expected it to
resort to it this early in the campaign.
The qualifications prescribed by the
call for voters at the approaching re-
publican primaries, about which our
the Democrat, is so much
troubled, simply mean that no demo-
Gratis need apply. That is all. The re.
publicans of Allen county want to see,
just for once, whether they can be per-
mitted to nominate their own candi-
dates without democratic meddling or
interference. Nor are they after the
'slum vote" Ifthey had wanted that
they would have invited the Demo-
crat and its gang to front seat in the
A friend brought us this week a copy
Of a paper published in small west
ern town, in which appeared half col
umn or more of items clipped without
credit from the local page of the REG
IsTER. Our friend thought he had
made rather surprising discovery but
if he would look through our exchang.
es every week he would find the same
thing repeated to a greater or less ex-
tent in dozens of other papers. We
have got SO used to this kind of thiev-
ing that We never kick any mOre-eX-
cept when they steal our poetry.
At meeting of McCook Post No. 81
G.. A. r. last Saturday night a vote
was taken on a dependent pension
bill Substantially the same as the one
vetoed by President Cleveland) which
1t is proposed to ask the next Congress
to pass. The vote stood IS for and not
one against, We wonder if the DEM
Ocrdt will still insist that it is only the
"brawle of the Grand Army, the
"coffee-coolers, "bounty-jumpers, /"
and "the fellows that fought with
their mouth" who disapprove of the
Presidents vetoes?
Mr.. III. III. Rodman kindly hands us
a copy of the Bloomington Ill.) Pan
tdgraph. 1t is full of the drouth, the
extent of which may be judged from
the following editorial paragraph:
summer Of 1887, when in the month of July 1t
was necessary, in Mclean county, to feed the
cattle to keep them from starvation, and when
the pastures were as dry as the dusty roads
to give sheaf oats, cut growing corn and hay
TO their cattle in lien of the burned grass of
the pastures, and it seems probable that this
feeding must continue indefinitely.
There will be a missionary concert
at the Presbyterian church on Sunday
evening, August IA, at which an at
tractive program will be offered. In
addition to songs aud recitatiOns by
the children there will be an address
by Miss Crowell who has spent several
years in home missionary work in
Utah and Idaho. There will be no ad-
fee, but a collection will be
taken for the benefit OF the work in
which Miss CrOwell is engaged.
THE PLACE to buy goods is where
they keep them to sell. I carry the
only complete line of crockery in Allen
county including glassware, chinaware
white and luster band granite ware,
lamps and cutlery. also carry as large
a stock of staple and fancy groceries,
teas, coffees and syrups,
and the popular brands of flour New.
Cable, Staff of Life and Fancy at
and retail. T. NJ. BARTELs
D. Simms shipped carload of hogs
to Kansas City last week and lost mon
ey on them. I'D" never likes to quit
with the town ahead of him and 50 he
bought carload of stock hogs and
shipped them down here. He found a
good market for them and has closed
them all out at fair profit. A fact
which shows, by the-way that Allen
county is not so awfully short of feed.
The long talked of successor to the
Interstate is upon our table and is
called the Humboldt Herald. 1t is q
7-column folio, patent inside, and pre-
sents very much the appearance typo
Of its predecessor. We are
not acquainted with its editor, Mr.. S.
A. d. Cox, but he has our best wishes.